Do You Remember Off Picture Editor This Week
A weekly Old Picture editor feature recalls forgotten scenes with a 1918 wedding at 1513 Lee Street and a strike in Charleston Nitro wage talks. Names like Womack Mauldin Brookshire and a list of people in a posed photo are included, with appeal for readers to locate old pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ege Aires
W. C. B. Moore
William Hard
Cyr Pickens
James Evans
Olivier Kerns
Earl Ward
Ducker
Clarence Figwatt
Silling
Harry Friewell
Earl Ferd
Destire Richie
Iwere Lachey
George Herscher
Hilara Jarret
Eran
Vain
West Virie
A. G. Womack
Lee Street
Womack
C. Thomas Brookshire
Palma
May 9 1918 Red Cross workroom kit drive in city
Mrs Billie Richardson notes the busy fourth floor Red Cross workroom in the federal building on May 9 1918 as 500 comfort kits were completed for the United States Army Potomac division. The kits include khaki cloth, silk flag, eight needles twelve safety pins two blanket pins khaki buttons khaki thread cord and a toothbrush and comb. The piece recalls government labor bureau setup efforts promised 18 years ago by Major MacQueen and L B Spaun. It mentions a 1918 fire at Standard Oil plant and local WWI enlistments from Charleston and Kanewhe counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Building Trades Council
Building Contractors Association
War Department
Charleston
Nitro
Construction Division
United States Army
Washington
Acale
Red Cross
Federal Building
Potomac Division
United States
MacQueen
L. B. Spaun
West Virginia
United States Department of Labor
Pirates Ahoy Captain Mission and the Victoire tale
The account recounts Captain Mission a seminal pirate figure famed for religious zeal and humanitarian pretensions. It covers his collaboration with Caraccioli a privateer turned ally and their mutinous reformist aims aboard the Victoire their battle with the British ship Winchelsea and a dramatic magazine explosion ending in heavy losses for the English and Mission’s crew amid celebrated speeches and naval bravado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chacus B. Driscoll
Yost
Capiin
Histor
Tian
Captain Mission
Reliaice
Cep- Win
Mission
Piratica
Tission
Minion
Rome
Caracial
Raspes
Caraccial
Mistice
Provence
Caraccioli
Miston
Winchelsea
Martinique
Victoire
Stamps and Piracy Tales Across Time and Seas
A quirky mix of 1930s stamp issuances from Chile and Malay states plus a long, vivid pirate narrative. The stamps depict Almagro and regional seals, while the Victoire and Mission recount legendary boarding actions, captures of a privateer, and chivalrous piracy with humanitarian flourishes and unexpected mercy aboard.
Religiou s pirate author and Mission's Communistic voyage
A narrative describes Captain Mission orchestrating a reformist pirates crew. Dutch tailors and English seafarers join a Communistic venture after a ship seizure, with a tomb for an English captain honored amid battle losses. Mission screens recruits for morals, planning to build a communal state with two ships and ample treasure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission
Toad
Peter the Hermit
Crusade
Caraccioli
Pirate Company
Literary Guidepost reviews Wallace Merrick and Jarrett works
The Literary Guidepost by Jean Baldy praises Doreen Wallace’s So Long to Learn as a strong soil novel about Mary Mayhew on Goosewold farm, contrasts Elliott Merrick’s Over the Winds Blow with its sensitive male lead Henry, and critiquhttps:// or Jarrett’s Strange Houses for its overextended setup that delays plot revelation. The column notes achievements and failings, with emphasis on character, setting, and narrative pacing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Baldy
Doreen Wallace
Macmillan
Vincent Sheean
Ming Wallace
Miss Wallace
Raussen
Mary Mayhew
Mary
Goosewold
Buburbia
Edward Bartley
Gooseword
Edward
Tod's Folly
Eliott Merrick
Beribners
Elliott
Merrick
Wissame
Merry Frain
Henry
Eancer
George
I Henry
Gloria
Love and Marriage in Spite of Parental Objections
Frances Sherman and Bill Bond, deeply in love, marry despite parental disapproval. Frances grapples with hurt from Bill's mother Martha Bond and an uneasy home life as illness and a hospital scene unfold. Estelle, the nurse-like daughter-in-law, steps in as Frances visits Bill’s ailing mother, revealing tensions and fragile family dynamics as the story advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Sherman
Bill Bond
Frances
Bill
Shermans
New York
Jane
Estelle
Stone
Fran
Estella
Prances
Mother Bond
Estelle B
Martha’ Bond
Ana
Englishman Reports Ferocious Pigmy Race From Malay Archipelago
Lord Moyne describes a charity exhibition of trophies from his Malay Archipelago tour. He recounts a documented tribe of pale pigmies living between the Ham river and Mount Hagen in New Guinea, averaging four feet tall with yellow skin and distinctive features. They are described as savage, cannibalistic yet once friendly, with bone or shell weapons and carved relics later sent to museums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Meyne
Malay Archipelago
Lord Moyne
Hamu River
Mount Hagen
New Guinea
E Shell
British ‘Museum
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Mrs
Billie Richardson
Standard Ol
Capitol Street
Kanawhe and Michigan Railroad
Richmond
City Draft Board
Samuel C. Ward
Joan Richard Hays
Cornelius G. Lawler
Charles William Nelson
George A. Fruth
Harry 0. Stone
Joseph P. Gunther
Kanewhe County Board No
David Skyles
John A. Young
E. G. Summers
Louis A. Hoffman
Pirates
C. Z. Butterfield
Chile
Diego de Almagro
Pahang
Negri Sembilan
Perak
Selangor
H Caraccioli
St. Christopher's
Boston
Pelite
Vietnive
Bard Butthe
Auyterchion
Bes
the Literary Guidepost
New Jersey
Hagstroms
Sally
Mr. Merrick
Frain
Core Jarrrett
Farrar & Rinehart
Cora Jarrett
Christopher Morley
King of
Altida
Kansas City
Kan
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Estelbe
Zoey
Gepyrtgat
Namie
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